out of control

[AtRendeAcres]

my hatch with bantam eggs doesn't look promising!

I was really looking forward to those little Blue Orpington Banties! SOOO!

I called Ideal who is shipping me a birthday order on 2/6 & added 5 Blue Wyandotte Bantam!

Mind you this was birthday order my mother put in for myself & 2 daughters we are each getting 6 chickens!

Well last week I called an put the bill in my name so I could add 10 RIR
(((this was strictly for the survival of the chickens)))

I did mention to DH we should probably keep a few because they are good layers & we could breed black sexlinks & sell them to cover our feed cost!

I also reminded him that we won’t be ordering any other chickens for a while!

That was why I got the incubator for Christmas so we could hatch our own & not bring in new germs!

Well I would ask if there is a support group to help with my addiction but, my luck it would be at a breeders house

Is anybody out there as bad?

 

[gritsar]

I originally came to this forum because my SO said I could have a 'few' chickens. Well, a few chickens has turned into 12; which still isn't bad. Except that I'm now also going to get a roo and 6 runner ducks. I look fondly at the bators whenever we go to Atwoods, but I'm using restraint.

 

[FLF]

Haha, I just had to knock myself out of Ideal's site, so as not to add some mottled cochins

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Then I had to sit on my hands when looking at eggs, since I already am going to have a bator full.

Plus my little cochin boy just started crowing, so I'm sure he'll be trying to romance the girls fairly soon. He is sooo cute!

My poor hubby....

 

[Roux]

Control is HIGHLY overrated. I'm adding 26 new birds to my flock...and promised I wouldn't get any more any time soon.

Of course, I defined 26 as "several"...that's several, right?

 

[AtRendeAcres]

I am glad I am not alone!

Roux I think several is good!
If you said a few that might of been pushing it!

 

[Roux]

LOL several is more than a few but less than many.

Besides, I am getting several...different breeds!

Control (or lack thereof) is all in the details.

And there is a support group for this addiction...it's called the BYC forums!!!

 

[Smitty's Farm]

Oh yea! I know what you mean. We were only going to keep about 5-8 chickens out of our order of 16 that came in last spring, but I couldn't part with any of them.

This spring I was not going to get any b/c I wanted to finish our coop and redesign the run. I was doing really good w/ resisting, but now I have baby chick fever and want to get something.

My daughter wants some kind of bantams, so what I ever I get I'm going to blame it all on her.

I think I'm going to try my hand at hatching if I can find the eggs that I want this late in the game.

 

[GockeyEgg]

Hey, I just came here for information when we got our mutt chicks from DH's dad. I was trying to figure out who was a roo and who wasn't. A year later, after those mutts didn't lay a single egg from Oct to Jan, I keep fighting the urge to add to orders, or make new orders...I keep losing. I just ordered more today. I couldn't wait for my first order to arrive the end of February. And I threw some runner ducks in for good measure. I knew I would never be able to talk DH into a bator so I am getting some evil silkies to do the job. I am done now. Done. Nothing new for at least a year. New from ordering that is...I never said anything about not hatching my own.

 

[pips&peeps]

At the beginning of last year I had about 30 chickens. I had blue, black and buff ameraucanas for breeding and extra roos in roo cages.

Now I have about 150 which includes some new silvers, whites, wheatens and blue wheatens. I also got some delawares just for laying.

There are also 15 runners and 6 sebastopols. And, I just had my husband shell out a wad of dough for my new building. I need to go to a "meeting"........

Is there a step method for this addiction also?

Jean

PS I have ordered brown red ameraucana chicks and some LF silver pencilled and partridge wyandottes cause they're pretty!!

 

[Roux]

Pips&Peeps, you are now my HERO!! You are my point of reference for..."see honey, at least I don't have THAT many!"